Christmas present traditions

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

Elsenet, some (mostly American) friends and I were discussing when to wrap presents and put them under the tree. I have started wrapping but due to life getting in the way, the tree isn't up yet.Anyway, this lead to the question of whether Santa presents under the tree get wrapped, and i was all 'What? Santa doesn't put presents under the tree, the point of Santa is that he leaves things for the children to do before the parents wake up!' Er, I mean, to show that sometimes the joy in the Incarnation is so great that it overflows in the form of chocolate and books and stuff given to strangers. But also the 'don't wake the parents!' thing.

I think it's probably that that's a thing that happens in the US, and here we do more just stockings? I remember that as being how it worked when I asked around on reading Little House in the Big Woods (where all the presents were Santa presents) but that's a while ago.

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[ghoti.livejournal.com]

Ah, the Queen's Speech. Not really part of my traditions, I was a bit surprised later when I realised that other people had it as a focal point. Carols from Kings was an 'if we feel like having the radio on it's a nice backgroun noise' rather than a focal point too, that's a thing where Colin was rather shocked and read it as me disliking them rather than just not minding either way.